Facilities

The plant is located on 84.5 kilometer on CA-9 road that connects Guatemala city and Santo Tomás de Castilla and Puerto Barrios seaports, in Guatemala nor east (Atlantic ocean). This road is highly transited during the whole year and is used for transportation of all kind of goods.

The pulp mill is strategically located on the region where the ¨5,000 hectareas project¨ was created producing the trees as raw material for the project. Aproximately the site is more or less at 210 kilometers from the Atlantic and Pacific ports.

The most used ports for cargo in Guatemala are Santo Tomas de Castilla on the Atlantic and Puerto Quetzal on the Pacific. The first one moves 1.2 million metric tons annually from 1,200 merchant ships. Puerto Quetzal moves 4.5 millions metric tons annually by 780 ships.

The train service is also available and is about 150 meters from the plant. Actually this service is handled by a private company and it is working on the connection with Mexico network.

Water needs for the project will be taken from the Motagua river, that runs right to the plant side and has an acceptable stream the whole year.

Besides that the plant has the own capacity to generate its electric energy by means of the heat taken from the recovery and captation backpressure steam (18.5 megawatts capacity), it is available the service from the national electric energy company

 

 (Instituto Nacional de Electrificación –INDE-).

 

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